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South Lyon singer to perform at anti-trafficking event

Diane Gale Andreassi
1:21 p.m. EDT September 2, 2014

Ally Burgor has wanted to become a professional singer and she will be involved with the Michigan Abolitionist Project to fight human trafficking in an upcoming performance.
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Ally Burgor is following her dream to be a professional singer, and she’s also hoping to offer a voice in an upcoming fundraiser for a nonprofit group fighting human trafficking.

The South Lyon resident and 2014 South Lyon High School graduate is performing Sunday in The Pike Room at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac. The event takes place 4-8 p.m.

Burgor will play her guitar and sing alternative pop music she wrote during the 2014 Unbound Project, which is a collaboration of artists, creative writers and musicians offering their talents to raise money for and draw attention to human trafficking.

“If you can benefit others from what you’re passionate about, I support it,” Burgor said. “I’m into benefiting others and getting the community involved and generations involved.”

Changing lives

“I want the people of South Lyon and surrounding cities to get an education about human trafficking and to know that it’s happening in our backyard, mostly with girls 11 to 14 years old. I hope to help end it and to get your voice heard, because one voice can change lives,” she said.

The 18-year-old liberal arts student at Schoolcraft College considered being a professional singer all through high school, “but thought it was a gamble for my future,” she said. “God spoke to me. I have to follow this dream and get my music out there. If nothing happens, nothing happens, but I have to know that I tried.”

Some have seen her perform at Java House in South Lyon and at the Plymouth Coffee Bean in Plymouth. Performing at Crofoot is the most formal venue so far, she added.

Burgor said she is attending college as a back-up and an insurance policy of sorts. But, that doesn’t mean she won’t keep taking chances in her quest to perform. Like, moving to Nashville in January. She will be staying with relatives.

“God tells me what to do,” Burgor added. “I’ll start networking. I don’t have a set plan. I know I want to go for music.”

She has an extended play musical recording, Here’s to Us. The songs are about life occurrences that have happened to family members.

Tickets to the 2014 Unbound Project at the Crofoot are $15 at the door and $10 in advance. It is located at 1 S. Saginaw St. in Pontiac. For more information about human trafficking go to michiganabolitionistproject.org.